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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with big vfat
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:35:58 -0700
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Karsten Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a very big (367GB) Fat32-FS. I need this partition for data 
> exchange between windows and linux.
> When I have mounted the FS for a longer time and do some changes on this 
> I got lost filesegments in scandisk. The partition is on a 6*100GB Raid5 
> (3ware 7810). Has anyone an idea what the problem might be?
> Is there any better way to exchange Data with windows?  (reiserfs,ext3 
> rw-driver for windows?)

There is ext2 for windows, but I haven't had a chance to use it.

Can you verify that you can use the same filesystem from windows reliably?